Tesla Is 100,000+ Workers, Not Just Elon Musk

Join daily news updates from CleanTechnica on e mail. Or follow us on Google News!

As we’ve famous many instances right here, and plenty of others have famous, Elon Musk’s transfer additional and additional to the suitable — and the way vocal he’s about that — have led to dramatic drops in curiosity in shopping for Teslas from Democrats. Many Democrats have gone from eager to assist an organization targeted on stopping international heating to not eager to assist an organization CEO who’s spreading right-wing conspiracy theories (together with one a few well-known politician’s husband who bought his head bashed in with a hammer), endorsing Donald Trump, and falsely downplaying the threats of worldwide heating and local weather disaster.

Nonetheless, there’s one thing that involves thoughts for me regularly. There are nonetheless greater than 100,000 different individuals working at Tesla, and plenty of of them are targeted on serving to with Tesla’s unique mission. In case you resolve to purchase a Tesla, you might be nonetheless supporting these employees and their efforts. Ought to they endure as a result of misinformation and spite usually unfold by their CEO on X?

I get it. Elon Musk is the face of Tesla. He’s the biggest particular person shareholder. His actions are far past what any large-company CEO would do in public. He has even denigrated Tesla’s dwelling state of California repeatedly and moved the HQ to Texas. Why ought to Democrats, notably California Democrats, not resolve that they might quite assist one other firm and revel in certainly one of many different high-quality, enjoyable, handsome, compelling electrical automobiles? Why not purchase from an organization whose CEO doesn’t trash you and your values on the each day? I get it.

Although, maybe we should always attempt to understand that Tesla led the transition to electrical automobiles and lots of the individuals who had been accountable for which are nonetheless at Tesla doing their greatest. Additionally, Tesla continues to be necessary to the EV transition. If Tesla wobbles, that gives so much of room for different automakers to say damaging issues about electrical automobiles and step again their EV efforts. In my view, we’ve already seen it in 2024 as automakers have used the chance of Tesla’s gross sales drop to make broader claims about not so many individuals wanting EVs in any case and scaling again their plans — whilst their very own EV gross sales have elevated immensely.

Anyway, sure, if given the selection between a Kia EV6 or Hyundai IONIQ 5 and a Tesla Mannequin Y, and also you’re struggling to decide on between them, however Elon Musk’s tweets are inflicting societal disruption on the common, the selection of which car to purchase turns into a lot simpler. In case you’re struggling to resolve between a Ford Mustang Mach-E and a Tesla Mannequin Y however up to now yr have realized that 1) you possibly can depend on the Mustang Mach-E having access to Superchargers and a pair of) Elon Musk has totally embedded himself in a right-wing echo chamber, nicely, it’s simple to really feel extra drawn to purchasing from Chris Farley’s enjoyable, cheerful cousin Jim.

However let’s simply not overlook the 100,000+ Tesla staff across the US and the world. I really feel dangerous an increasing number of for a few of them, because it’s clear that they should be combating methods to reconcile issues about their CEO and the love and fervour they’ve for Tesla’s mission, Tesla’s automobiles, and the work they do. Naturally, as soon as can inform them to only stop. However, once more, Tesla’s mission is noble, its automobiles are wonderful, and so they most likely have good, strong jobs.